The best examples for teaching trial advocacy come from actual trials. Concrete always trumps abstract for learning. The George Zimmerman trial opening statements provided a lot of grist for my...

Is it time to start lamentations on the death of the classic tough-as-nails criminal lawyer?

It is time to fashion a new approach to learning trial skills. It is time to throw out those hoary old trial advocacy books. It is time to reject the...

The Firm is proud to boast that more than half of the Firm's attorneys have been listed as 2013 Florida Super Lawyers.

I have ignored this blog for the past two months because I was acutely tied up – the vicious battle for a new trial in the Goodman case, several intense...

We were pleased to make the Southern District of Florida Blogspot today.   Check out other news articles about the Mary Estelle Curran case here.

Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama...

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo The cliches roll off the tongue...

On Friday morning (2/8/13) I had the pleasure of joining a Bar panel discussing criminal law issues. The panel had the grandiose title of “Criminal Law with the Legends” (usually...

Paul Harvey died in 2009, but despite that infirmity, he won the last Superbowl. Well not exactly, but he had the best commercial. Chrysler used his speech about American farmers...